Participants at the IAN Science Communication and Integrated Assessment Course.

Science communication courseApril 3–7, 2006, the IAN group held their “Science Communication and Integrated Assessment” course in the AREL building at the Horn Point campus. For the first time, this course included modules on performing and analyzing integrated ecosystem assessments. The participants included HPL graduate students and staff, as well as people from the Healthy Waterways Campaign (Australia), National Park Service (Virginia), Sonoran Institute (Arizona), Louisiana State University (Louisiana), and NOAA (Oxford, MD).

The Integration & Application Network is an initiative of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
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